Bert Hall
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Weston Birch "Bert" Hall was a military aviator and writer. Hall was one of America's first combat aviators, flying with the famed Lafayette Escadrille in France before the U.S. entered World War I.
American aviator Bert Hall, from the front piece of his book En l'air (1918)
Bert Hall and a Nieuport 11
Bert Hall during WW I
Lafayette Escadrille
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The La Fayette Escadrille was the name of the French Air Force unit escadrille N 124 during the First World War (1914–1918). This escadrille of the Aéronautique Militaire was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. In September 1917, the escadrille was transferred to the US Army under the designation 103rd Aero Squadron. In 1921, The French Air Force recreated a N124 unit who claimed lineage from the war-time La Fayette escadrille and is now part of the escadron 2/4 La Fayette.
Insignia of the N 124 La Fayette Escadrille
Lafayette Escadrille Pin (Escadrille N 124) with bust of Chief Sitting Bull. Chief Sitting Bull N124 was conserved by EC 2/4 La Fayette of the French Air Force.
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Kiffin Rockwell, Capt. Georges Thenault, Norman Prince, Lt. Alfred de Laage de Meux, Elliot Cowdin, Bert Hall, James McConnell and Victor Chapman (left to right)